[Football] The Decisive Moment

As everyone knows, I Niu never turns his anger inward. He only blames other people.

At sixteen, he spent three days and three nights arguing with the media as the youngest Manchester United first-team player in the Premier League. At seventeen, he vowed he would never join the England national team. At eighteen, he helped Manchester United become Europe’s first treble winners. At twenty, he became the youngest national team captain in Europe. From then on, he was the most talked-about and hottest football star in the world.

Fans both loved and hated him

For one simple reason: every time I Niu won every title there was to win, he promptly transferred away and set off on his next adventure. When he arrived, he swore he would “win everything for the team.” But once he had actually claimed a trophy no one else could match, I Niu would merely glance at it, snap his fingers to show he had conquered the place, and leave without a backward glance for his next team.

The media dubbed him “a bored, arrogant bully who picks on humanity.” Lately, I Niu had a little problem.

I Niu felt that the fans had already written him off as past his prime, and that he couldn’t get away with being just another new player anymore. Looking at the Manchester United, Milan, and Real Madrid fans whose energy he had completely drained, leaving them unable to spare any attention for other players, I Niu felt terribly, terribly wronged!

Cradling the football that represented his hat trick, he tearfully protested in front of everyone: “I don’t want lots and lots of money. I want lots and lots of love! You don’t understand me at all!”

“Why can’t you give all your love to me? I brought you victories. Isn’t it only right that you love me?”

The fans, driven to the brink by I Niu: “...”

The reporters, too intimidated by the complicated relationship between them to speak: “...”

“Good heavens,” one reporter thought. “You don’t want lots of money? I Niu, could you put away the keys to your new sports car before you say that?”

“Isn’t it true that money goes where love is?” the fans cried in despair. “Then what about all the players we bought to keep you here?”

That’s just your bad luck.

Love was too precious a thing. So precious that I Niu wanted to keep all the love in the world for himself. It wasn’t until the day he retired that he finally realized: “Have you really loved me all these years?”

The fans, who had spent half their lives consumed by this high-maintenance player: “...Holy shit.”

“You’re only just figuring that out?”

I Niu: =v=

An unpredictable hothead who loves stirring up trouble, clingy and needy off the pitch, midfielder

Manchester United, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United

National team: England. Expect some unhinged jokes.

Emmanuel

I Niu is a rare high-maintenance baby. He wants lots and lots of money, and lots and lots of love.

① The son of Fred, the Red Devils’ mascot. His birth circumstances won’t hold up to scrutiny.

② The author is a pretend fan who’s only watched a few highlight videos. What I write won’t hold up to scrutiny.

③ Starting from when he’s a little kid, with some sentimental writing. Part of the setting comes from Coco. Later, the kid can travel through time and across the boundary between life and death.

④ No romance because the kid likes everyone equally. Lots of people will like I Niu, but he has no romantic feelings for any of them. It’s already tagged as a harem magnet story.

⑤ He joins the first team starting in chapter 19. Please don’t skip the earlier chapters either (bows).

⑥ Please leave me lots of comments. I’ll work hard to keep updating!

“Searching for a free covenant” is from Shi Tiesheng’s Notes on the Void.

Coming soon 1: Just a passerby, I’ve been waiting for you! A Bayern-Dortmund two-way-playing kitten.

Coming soon 2: A real-life case of online toxic positivity doing harm, an anthology.

Theme: Promote the spirit of competition.